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This pilot fish at the client site Contractor--and, as usual, he and his cohorts are concerned with, initially, when they were purchased.

"Network going crazy," fish reports."It was a great site with lots of routers and subnets are carefully separated. something to extend this big time, and sniffers told us that we are seeing" pollution "between subnets.

Fish and his team eventually to pin down where pollution is in two subnets on the adjacent wings of corporate development for the Legal Department and software development.

So fish and his team want to walk the floor, to see if they can spot anything unusual.

First everything looks normal.But then someone on the team sees an Ethernet cable, snaking around the hallway.

The cable is connected to two networks on the wall and it does not belong to a group of fishes.

"We are digging a bit," said the fish."It turns out that the law has been blocked from public Internet access; development; Some vivid characters in legal figured if it is connected to a cable connector development around the corner, they went out to the Internet without filters.

"I never learned, but I really hope that he got fired.

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